AdaCore Software Developer reviews

- The "Openness" core value of the company can only be witnessed on the walls it is displayed on. Most managers do not know the salary of their engineers, and meaningful strategical decisions are the privilege of the five or six happy few. - Omnipresent office politics after reaching a certain level of expertise that will make or (most likely) break your career in the company. - Efficient HR team, able to get any employee to quit if they disagree with the executive agenda, using a good mix of threats, pressure and intimidation, - Limited career opportunities, fixed quota of Seniority per team. - AdaCore already sells its subscriptions to 95% of the customers it could sell to. Trying to scale this up implies selling new products to the same customers. At some point you run out of new high quality products to sell. - Cost cutting policies that discarded the philosophy of the funder after his death. Any employee used to have the opportunity to travel to company offices or trade shows, every year, meet coworkers, and benefit from the company success. Greed from the next CEOs caused this to gradually disappeared year after year (except for the happy few). - The turnover rate skyrocketed over the past years.

- High turnover - Decisions are being made based on politics rather than on strategic reflections - Perks are progressively being removed except for the happy few e.g. hidden extra budgets for flights and hotels - No meritocracy, personal appreciation is the main driver for career growth - Overall company inertia, low speed of action - The Human Resources Director is everything but human, making schemes to ensure people she doesn’t like leave the company, sneaking into people’s email inbox, spreading false rumors, hiding her incompetence behind manipulative behaviors and fake declarations of love